Gardening Blog

I’ve planted few beets in my gardening days, mostly to photograph them.  Other than a rare pickled beet slice I’ll put on my plate at a restaurant salad bar, I don’t eat them.  They’re too sweet and overwhelming in taste.

Last year, I dabbled in container vegetable gardening, due to shoulder surgery that prevented me from digging in the veggie garden.  Results were excellent, with one notable failure, and I’m encouraged to do more this season.

In the dead of winter when grocery stores offer flavorless, hard tomatoes at astronomical prices, I found a package of five large, luscious black tomatoes for 49 cents today.

I discovered a package of tulip bulbs on a garage shelf, behind a bag of soil sulfur, two weeks ago.

New Year’s Day, I used the last of the blueberries I froze in July and August from the four shrubs in my garden to make a blueberry-wild plum wine reduction to go over grilled duck breasts. 

Ruby, red poinsettias signaled Christmas to me as a child, especially growing up in balmy Southern California. 

The first snowflakes of the season are falling as I write this.  We avoided the October blizzard that hit the Northeast, but snow reliably falls here in the Upper Great Lakes after just Halloween.